Pitt has added a couple verbals to the 2015 football class. I know this is a stunner, but they are on the offensive side of the ball.
Over the weekend, Pitt added a QB (hands off, Vanderbilt!).
Malvern Prep’s Alex Hornibrook, a strong-armed junior quarterback, committed Saturday to play at Pittsburgh. He visited the school Friday and Saturday with his parents, and threw during one of the team’s camp sessions.
“Everything just felt right,” he said. “The campus is amazing, my interaction with the coaches was great, and it’s somewhere I could easily see myself playing.”
The 6-foot-4, 210-pound southpaw, who chose Pitt over Connecticut and Rutgers, added that he is excited about the Panthers renewing their heated rivalry with Penn State beginning in 2016.
Hornibrook is a consensus 3-star QB. He is also strong academically with an offer from Yale.
And very recently a potential target was added to the recruiting class in WR/Athlete Quadree Henderson.
Pitt added a speedy option to its receiving corps Tuesday night when Wilmington (Del.) Alexis I Dupont athlete Quadree Henderson committed to the Panthers.
Henderson picked Pitt over offers from Boston College, Cincinnati, Clemson, Delaware, Nebraska, Ohio, Rutgers, Temple and West Virginia. He narrowed his list to Pitt and Boston College before making his selection.
Pitt hosted Henderson for a visit in February when the three-star prospect attended the Panthers’ Junior Day, and the seed for Tuesday’s announcement was planted then.
“It was great,” he told Panther-Lair.com after the visit. “Everything about Pitt was great. I fell in love with it after being there for ten minutes. I was just in love with it.”
Yup, another consensus 3-star recruit.
Henderosn is not a big kid at 5-8 or 5-9, but he is very quick. The type of player that can spread the field and be deadly in special teams — and we all know how much Pitt can use any help in that area.
Anybody know how many scholarships Pitt has to offer for this class?
Now, if Kareem Ali commits on Thursday it will truly be an awesome week.
As you sit with your cup of coffee on the patio this morning watching guys hit off the first tee, you have to be happy about these two kids joining us. More to come.
H2P
WE can team up Quadree Henderson in the slot next year with Tyler Boyd & Addonis Jennings.
That could lead to a phenomenal passing attack !!!
H2P !
VeV !
Look forward to watching you play down here in road games in Mid-Dixie.
Huebner should have the O-line a lot more ready than last year !
Voytik will give us some added mobility in the pocket and on QB scrambles. The TE’s will be better and perhaps more involved in the offense.
Boyd, Garner, Witherspoom and Jennings should make a nice foursome of WR’s.
Blewitt made 14 of 18 FG’s last year with a long of 47 and was 40 of 41 on XP’s.
It should be a very exciting year !
I think we’re ready for a push.
Love a 4.43 forty. Hopefully the damn is breaking.
Still hoping for some impact players on the defensive side of the ball. Maybe that comes next.
Old Pitt Grad, Chryst is no Urban Meyer, but neither is he Dave Hart or Carl DePasqua. He lead a team with 12 freshmen to a winning season last year and better times are coming.
I also saw the pic of Franklin on the Trib page. However, the Post-Gazette did not mention Henderson’s commitment—which is even worse.
H2P
Haven’t been on that rag yet. Thx for the headsup, maybe I’ll just skip those fools.
But the love affair that the Trib has with Franklin is over-the-top. If you go thru their archives just the past 2-3 weeks alone and see their PSU articles and PSU Blog, you would think you are reading from Black Shoe Diaries.
Both Pgh papers seem to be too PSU oriented which I attribute to (1) their sports editors whom I both believe are pSU alums, and (2) the amount of hits they get for these articles on their online editions from PSU fans
Winning games will make a difference because Pittsburgh loves a winner and is very spoiled.
workout is wise and ultimately will be effective in moving
the program forward.
Sam Werner of the PG is the worst; no surprise that
the latest commits dd not get a mention.
Let no one say that you are always negative. You are a tough sell, but you have high standards and I respect that.
H2P
It all starts at home !
Glad I don’t live in Pgh., that always pissed me off to no end !
You and I agree that Pederson is terrible for the entire sports program, just not football. Chryst will win with or without Pederson, it’s just whether Chryst is here or elsewhere. I am convinced that if Pitt goes 9-3 and Michigan goes 6-6, we better watch out. If you don’t think it is possible, look at what state penn hired. Their new coach had a much easier schedule at vandy than our coach has in the ACC. I am just saying he needs to be extended for a couple of years…. now.
Lastly, Yes, I can’t stand Peterson. We agree on that. I also don’t think Vandy’s schedule was easier than our schedule last year. The SEC vs. ACC isn’t close. I don’t know about the non-conf for them though. I know ours was weak. I will have to look at who they played. Extend Chryst after he wins 8. Don’t extend him in fear he would even be considered for UM job if open.
I’d love to prove ’em wrong.
Twerps…..lol
However, I’m not sure at all that Pederson’s contract will be bought out by boosters. That is a reach IMO. There was a reason Pederson was extended as the BoT and Nordy have different views on the subject then anti-Pederson PITT sports fans.
If Gallagher, who has spent the last 20 years at NIST which is as ultra-nerdy as it gets, doesn’t value sports as we hope he does then it will be good to have a continuing AD in that position to protect what is already established. In that I mean the pretty strong emphasis Nordy had in place for PITT sports.
Just think, Gallagher was a cross-country running tech nerd in HS. Hell, he may be the best guy for the rapidly rising high-tech & medical programs at the University but in truth we have no idea at all how he feels about the sports arena.
We’ll see, but I think the chances of Pederson not being here for the next two years at least is less than 50-50
We can do better!
